The purpose of basal readers is to teach children to read. When a child has the
opportunity to learn to read in his native language, his chances on success in
learning and reading increase, because the language is known ...

The matter of the language policy of the SAPS and the language attitudes of
police officials is a topical, but largely unexplored issue. Little progress has
been made to address this issue.
This thesis investigates ...

The purpose of the mini-dissertation is to investigate the implementation of the language policies of financial institutions. These institutions are ABSA and NEDCOR.
The research was conducted against the backdrop of ...

South Africa is going through a transitional phase and urbanization, which among other
things, has caused many families to resettle. The education system is no longer based on
bilingualism with English and Afrikaans as ...

Although critics have acknowledged the work of Wilma
Stockenstrom and have responded favourably, and although
she has received four awards and prizes for her poetry
up to the publication of Monsterverse, no all-embracing
study ...

This dissertation is an investigation into the lexicographical treatment of synonymy
in Afrikaans explanatory dictionaries - especially the Verklarende Handwoordeboek
van die Afrikaanse Taal (HAT). It is divided into two ...

New developments in the dissemination of information have focused attention on the multimodal text, here the text that combines the linguistic code and the visual code. The multimodal text is being used more and more in ...

Technikon SA, situated in Florida, is the largest technikon in South Africa with an
enrolment figure of more than 80 000 for 1995. As a technikon it is committed to the
principle of cooperative education and it presents ...

To what extent can and does the left hemisphere and the right
hemisphere become involved in the teaching of Afrikaans as a
first language in the secondary school?
According to the Transvaal Education Department syllabus ...

Hermann Hesse is one of the most widely read and translated German authors of our time.
The potential problems for the translator posed by the time gap between the original
publication of the source text and a ...

The language and learning problems experienced by the majority of African pupils at
Secondary level are constantly in the public eye. The cause of many of these problems lies
in the primary schOol system, where English ...

In the modern world knowledge is a form of power, and those who have no access to it are by and large excluded from and marginalised by mainstream society. Being illiterate, therefore, equals being powerless and voiceless. ...

While linguistic theorists have been grappling with the intricacies of language for
many years and a myriad of theories on the production of speech has graced the
intellectual world, most theorists over this time have ...

This study wants to outline some of the errors made by the Motswana child when she/he
communicates in English. I also want to look at the origin of the errors and how the errors
affect cohesive writing and interpretation.
This ...